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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77256959 Title: Male friendship in Shakespeare and his contemporaries Author: Tom MacFaul Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780521869041 0521869048 0511284071 9780511284076 9780521123174 0521123178 9780511321771 0511321775 OCLC:77256959

  
  

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Male friendship in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Author:	Tom MacFaul
Publisher:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Document  Computer File : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Renaissance humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men could be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their own ideas about friendship more firmly based on a respect for human difference. They created a series of brilliant and varied fictions for human connection, as often antagonistic as sympathetic, using these as a means for individuals to assert themselves in the face of social domination. Whilst the fantasy of equal and permanent friendship shaped their thinking, dramatists used friendship most effectively as a way of shaping individuality and its limitations.  Read more...
Subjects	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters. Male friendship in literature. View all subjects
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